There's a number of add-ins and programs which are a boon to users of The Societal Web and all social media. We'll be talking about a few of them from time to time here. I talked about typing replacement programs in this Tools to simplify Social Media - Part 1.
Another tool that we thoroughly recommend is Scribefire. This add-in to Firefox let's you edit and publish directly to a blog such as 'The Societal Web' but it also automatically stores posts on your local machine as well as including tools to make using Twitter easier too.
Posts are stored locally using SQLLite so it's easy to go back to old posts and refer or reuse text. If you lose connection or power, or navigate away from a page on may social networking sites you can lose your text. Not with Scribefire.
You get a WYSIWYG editor, but you also get access to an HTML editor window to do the more complicated layouts - if that's what inspires you, and for most social networking sites where Scribefire can't post directly you can take the HTML and cut and past it easily.
It's a great tool for the Societal Web.
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